My residency in Arquetopia revolves around the back strap loom, pre-Hispanic technique preserved by several indigenous communities in Mexico. The residency’s horizon is to learn this technique and to make a film about it, because weaving is a metaphor for the creation of a film. Both activities will be held simultaneously, measuring space and time, using the mechanical and the manual, and creating writing and associative processes.

This technique will be a threshold to get close to a family of weavers in Oaxaca, Mexico, whose professional and personal life is built around the loom. The intimacy of this new relationship and mutual learning is the true meaning of my residency, our vulnerable and reciprocal presences negotiating between ourselves and the foreign, seeking a meeting point.

Aroung this human relationship will weave a iconographic, sonic and written constellation around notions as “native”, “identity” and the “miscegenation”. Notions that can sound like evident ethnographic tropes in this context and need to be problematised. Theydraw borders and reveal, at the same time, temporary and sensitive fluctuations between what survives and what is in transformation, what disappears and what is reinvented, and what remains on the opacity.